novelonline Chapter 691 One Stone Stirs Up Heavy Waves
Chapter 691 One Stone Stirs Up Heavy Waves
Information about Congressman Bruce was quickly sent to Fraser's desk. The more Fraser and Andrew looked at it, the more their brows knit together.
Stanley Bisef Bruce, a native of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, is sixty-three this year, but has served as a member of parliament for 21 years, and is an important member of the Western Australia State Legislative Council.And he and the current governor of Western Australia, Alfred Edmund Barton, have been friends and classmates for many years!Longtime golf buddies with Judge Jose Andrew Fischer of the Supreme Court of Western Australia!It can be said that in Western Australia, it has amazing influence!And his younger brother Cruise * Biserve Bruce is the person in charge of Perth's Mining Resources Review Department! Chapter 691 One Stone Causes Thousands of Waves
It is conceivable that such a person who suddenly stood up to support Huaxia's company would have a great influence on the Australians in Western Australia.
"Hey hey hey!" Fraser looked at it for a while, then suddenly laughed!
"John! What's so funny about this?" Andrew said with some dissatisfaction.
"Dear Alfred, don't you think this is a good thing?" Fraser pointed to the information on the table, "Who is the first and the second to be attacked by Congressman Bruce? We two It's BHP and Billiton! Is it difficult for an insider to find out who is behind these two companies?"
Andrew pondered for a moment, with a dazed look on his face, he somewhat understood what Fraser meant!When this matter was exposed, the most passive ones were not Rio Tinto, but BHP and Billiton!
"Presumably at this time, George Reid Crusnan and Bush Andrew Fischer are even more troublesome!" Fraser said with a bit of schadenfreude, "These two bastards are still hypocritical in the afternoon Come to comfort me, hahaha..."
Andrew couldn't help showing a relieved smile!
"However, it's hard for them to feel a thousand waves caused by one stone in Chapter 691. I'm afraid we will be affected too!" Fraser said bitterly, his smile retracted. "This time, Western Australia may be troubled!"
Congressman Bruce's public speech was like throwing a boulder into a calm pool of water, which immediately caused countless splashes!
In the evening of that day, the incident was reported on the TV news program in Perth.And on the second day, almost without exception, the Perth media put Mr. Bruce's speech on an important page!And the headlines on the front page.It was the meeting between the Prime Minister of Australia and the Secretary of State of the United States about the trade agreement between the two countries!It can be seen how much the Perth media attaches importance to Bruce's speech!
The owner of Haiping Mining Company clearly wrote Fang Mingyuan's name! 100% privately owned business!These media were also worried that the public would not know Fang Mingyuan's identity, so they spent hundreds of words.Give a succinct explanation of Fang Mingyuan's identity and origin!
Australians in Perth and even the entire state of Western Australia were stunned!They don't know about the Carrefour Group, they don't know about the oil refinery, and they don't know about the steel plant either, but they do know about the Hong Kong Kumho Film Group!The younger generation knows more about Sega Co., Ltd., the company, and "Resident Evil"!The family that can own these two companies, needless to say, is naturally very rich in funds!Even if money is tight for a while, there will be many banks.Happy to lend them money!
Not to mention, anyone who is a little familiar with the Hong Kong Kumho Film Group knows the close relationship between the Fang family and the Guo family, and the Guo family controls the largest fleet in Southeast Asia.Even looking at the whole world, Guo's Shipping Group can also be ranked among the top ten!
So far, no one doubts the ability of Haiping Mining Company to raise funds to develop the Carasso mining area!
Xia Wenfan looked at the reports that these positions were clearly in favor of Haiping Mining, and he couldn't help thinking of the phone call between him and Fang Mingyuan a few days ago.
"Brother Xia, in the early 90s, developed countries such as Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea had already completed their respective industrialization processes. The steel manufacturing industry in these countries was in the process of gradually shrinking and transferring to emerging markets, so for iron ore Naturally, the needs of the world have become sluggish! The sudden outbreak of the economic crisis has undoubtedly magnified this negative impact by a huge amount. As a result, until today, those large steel groups in the world, including Germany's Krupp The days of New Ri Iron and Steel Corporation of South Korea and South Korea’s Pohang Iron and Steel Company are relatively difficult, which has also led to a relatively low period of global iron ore trade!”
As Fang Mingyuan said, the ups and downs of the global steel industry directly determine the demand for iron ore. These large steel groups have fallen into a downturn, which naturally affects the iron ore mining companies around the world.In order to cope with this dilemma, iron ore mining companies around the world have reduced production and laid off employees in recent years to reduce production costs!The companies of the three major mining companies in Western Australia, such as Rio Tinto, BHP, and Billiton, even want to save transportation costs by increasing the output of mining areas close to the port and reducing the output of mining areas far away from the port.
Mining and energy can be said to be the most important export industry in Western Australia, generally accounting for [-]% to [-]% of Western Australia's total annual merchandise exports!
As the international iron ore market has been slow to see signs of recovery, the efforts made by the three major mining companies in order to reduce costs will undoubtedly make the government of Western Australia, which is economically dependent on the mining industry, lose a lot of money in local fiscal revenue and employment of local residents. Aspects have been greatly affected!
In the entire state of Western Australia, except for Perth, the economies of other cities and towns have continued to decline for several years. In these places, due to the sluggish fiscal and tax revenue, the local government is simply unable to carry out urban construction, and cannot guarantee the local residents As a result, young people in small cities and towns have to go to big cities to find job opportunities.And this will undoubtedly aggravate the decline of these small cities and towns, forming a vicious circle!
Therefore, for those local governments in Western Australia, preventing the continued decline of the local economy is undoubtedly the top priority, and this must increase local fiscal taxes and ensure that residents are fully employed.But besides introducing foreign capital and selling mineral resources, these local governments have no other way to go in a short period of time.
In order to develop mineral resources in Western Australia, there is a practical problem that cannot be avoided, that is, the logistics system of mineral resources in Western Australia, and even Australia as a whole, is controlled by the three major mining companies. As long as the three major mining companies refuse, Enterprises that cannot use this logistics system will face the dilemma that even if the ore is mined, it cannot be shipped out.Moreover, even if it can be shipped out, the high transportation cost will make the company fall into a situation of continuous losses!
This has caused other foreign capital to enter the mineral resource development industry in Western Australia in these years, which is quite small!And there is no large-scale group enterprise, which naturally makes the local Australians very angry about it!
However, although these Australians were angry, they had nothing to do with the three major mining companies.After all, their actions are not against the law.No one can blame them for not opening up their logistics system to competitors!After all, it was built by the three major mining companies with real money.Australians who respect private property ownership will naturally not blame the three major mining companies for this.
But this time is different. These Australians know from the media that the Carasso mining area is located more than 330 kilometers east of Perth and more than 230 kilometers from the nearest port. That is to say, if Haiping Mining Company wants to To develop the Carasso mining area, it is necessary to build roads or railways from the mining area to the sea, and also invest in expanding the port to ensure the transportation of iron ore.And these investments, according to preliminary estimates, cost billions of dollars!Such a high investment in construction has an immediate effect on stimulating the economy of the local and surrounding areas and increasing the employment rate of local people!This has significance that cannot be ignored for Western Australia, which is in distress!
And more importantly, in the eyes of these Australians, the investment of Haiping Mining Company has undoubtedly created a logistics channel for the export of mineral resources for Western Australia, breaking the monopoly of the three major mining companies!This alone made them stand on the side of Haiping Mining!
So, Western Australia is starting to boil... (to be continued) rq